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Who qualify say they will boycott the debate over a loyola marymount university dispute what do you think will happen on thursday? >> thats a good question. you cant have a debate for any candidates who do the debating but at the same time, i really doubt at the end of the day we wont have any of the democratic contenders on stage. there is a strong incentive among this democratic primary field to show up for debate. simply because every time a candidate has a good debate performance, they see t...

You have been watching tonight. what you have been watching all day history in the making. members of the house judiciary committee arguing over articles of impeachment geps the president of the united states. starting at 9:00 a.m., republicans offering amendment after amendment after amendment that would change the text of the impeachment. articles. or block them completely well into the night. its 11:17 now. ahead of a vote to move those articles out of committee. i want to get to phil who is ...

Long time. they had a mark up on obama care in 2009 that entered 4:00 in the morning. articles of impeachment, you could see going pretty late, as well. what they have been debating for five amendments republicans proposed to the two articles of impeachment and some point later tonight, there will be a vote on both of those articles of impeachment and they will move them to the house floor, presumably next week sometime, brian. >> brian: are the amendments worth discussing or a way to slow down ...

Certainly articles of impeachment last a long time. they had a mark up on obamacare back in 2009 that ended about 4:00 in the morning. articles of impeachment, you can see this going late as well. what they have been debating are five different amendments that republicans have proposed to the two articles of impeachment and at some point later tonight, there will be a vote on both of those articles of impeachment and they will move them to the house floor presumably next week sometime. >> brian:...

And the news is next live from n.p.r. News in Washington Im core of a Coleman later this morning the House Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote on 2 articles of impeachment against President Trump the Judiciary Committee debated the articles for 15 hours yesterday and chairman Gerald now to postpone the expected vote at the end of the committee hearing has been a long 2 days of consideration of these articles and it is now very late at night and what the members on both sides of the I have ...

Judges and he wants to kick the can on legislation he doesnt care about? >> the bills i talked about are not partisan bills, for the most part theyre not that controversial. and why we dont take some time on the floor and debate these? if one person or two people or fooifbl people are holding them up, who cares. lets do a little deliberating and debating and lets vote on some of these bills. i do not know why senator mcconnell is holding all these bills up. it makes no sense to me whatsoever. it...

Can on legislation he doesnt care about? >> the bills i talked about are not partisan bills, for the most part theyre not that controversial. and why we dont take some time on the floor and debate these? if one person or two people or fooifbl people are holding them up, who cares. lets do a little deliberating and debating and lets vote on some of these bills. i do not know why senator mcconnell is holding all these bills up. it makes no sense to me whatsoever. its not like were working overtime...

From the house judiciary committee for the two articles of impeachment. >> we havent had this kind of thing happen very often in american history we have been talking for weeks and weeks. an ordinary mark-up its called, i served in the senate 4 1/2 years, you have debate, depending what the chairman allows, the opportunity for people to make statements, usually theyre designed to make news in their hometown papers. that takes a long time before you get to the substance of debate. with an ordinar...

On 2016, try to relitigate the opening of the russia investigation, because that is the chief republican talking point over on the house side about impeachment, that impeachment, they say, is the end of a years-long phishing expedition to undo the results of the election. they are not arguing with the democrats argument, which is about impeachment is all about preserving the integrity of the next election. but ive got to say one other thing is that a lot of people find the timing of this should ...

>> bret: president from talking about the impeachment committee, back with the panel for some final thoughts. we dont really know next steps because jerry nadler didnt say exactly whats going to happen. we assume there is going to be a markup this week and a vote sometime before christmas. >> back time in iowa caucuses always 3rd of february, 54 days from now. they need to be done with their work before the election starts. that means theyve got to go, go, go. >> bret: we dont know if the scope ...